Back in ye olde times, the idea of the sponsored artist seems like it was more prevalent. Dudes named after Ninja Turtles would get a long gig painting church ceilings and stuff like that, and it seems like it worked, since there are a bunch of painted church ceilings now.
Plus, rich people, like kings with big egos, would appoint artists to hang around and create art – there would be the King’s Juggler and the King’s Toilet Painter and the King’s Underground Dance Troupe.
Nowadays kings are mostly gone and ye …

So, I’m reading The Makers right now. I’m 18.58% into the book, according to my iPhone. It’s the third book I’ve read by Cory Doctorow – the first two were Content and Little Brother (I tried to read Down and Out in Magic Kingdom, but I didn’t get very far – something about the book just didn’t interest me). Little Brother was good enough that I bought a physical copy of it.
I really enjoy the ideas in Little Brother (even if it’s for young adults) and Makers – the …

Part 1 can be found here. I said there that I had some ideas for methods to make self-published e-books a “legitimate” way to publish a book, specifically with regard to listing self-published e-books as items on a resume. Here are the options, as I see them. They all have their drawbacks and advantages – I’ve listed them all in order to be as complete as possible, not to advocate them all.
In order to make this article itself a little more legitimate, I also emailed several people in various …